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In history, the most influential dynasty with Chengdu as its capital was Shu Han.
Furthermore, Liu Bei was a relative of the Han Dynasty. He represented the orthodoxy and represented the Eastern Han Dynasty's emperors in the wilderness. Compared to Cao Cao and Sun Quan, he was more convincing.
Liu Bei's valiant generals and famous warriors were enough to defend Chengdu.
With all these factors, Gaia chose Liu Bei to oversee Chengdu. Cao Cao and Sun Quan could only quietly withdraw from the stage of history and live in seclusion in an unknown corner of the wilderness.
Perhaps one day, they would be encountered by players and trigger some hidden quest.
After the system announcement, Gaia immediately released a system patch for the battle map. It was aimed at the traitors of South of Rosy Clouds and the others in the Battle of Chibi.
Gaia stipulated that if a lord did something detrimental to his faction in the battle map, his contribution points would be judged to be negative.
As for what was detrimental to his faction, Gaia would judge it immediately and did not specify. With Gaia's intelligence, it was believed that there would not be any misjudgments or omissions.
After the judgment, not only would the lord be immediately teleported out of the battle map, but the lord would also have to pay for the teleportation fees.
Apart from that, the soldiers of the lord's army who died in battle could not be resurrected.
What was more serious was that after being judged to be negative, Gaia would impose a 'ban' on the lord based on the severity of the situation.
The so-called 'ban' was to cancel the lord's right to participate in the next battle. It could range from one to three times.
In the entire game period, there were only a dozen battles in the China region. The Battle of Chibi that had just ended was already the sixth battle, and there were fewer battles after that.
Therefore, this kind of ban was extremely cruel to the Lord.
As for the actions of South of Rosy Clouds and the others in the Battle of Chibi, Gaia did not penalize them further. Gaia had always adhered to the principle that before a patch was released, any loophole could be exploited.
Be it Ouyang Shuo or other players, they had all used loopholes in the system.
South of Rosy Clouds and the others were naturally no exception.
…
At this point, the aftermath of the Battle of Chibi came to an end.
After returning to Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo handed Zhou Yu, Jia Xu, and the others to Du Ruhui. Du Ruhui was to familiarize the generals with Shanhai City's military structure and system.
Even Zhou Yu needed some time to adapt to the new plane.
Ouyang Shuo believed that the foundation of Shanhai City would greatly shock Zhou Yu and the others. Their loyalty would also increase, and they wouldn't have to stay at the awkward 60 points.
As for the arrangements for them, Ouyang Shuo would convene a military conference tomorrow to make a unified arrangement.
Diao Chan was personally taken care of by Song Jia.
…
That afternoon, Liu Bei, who had only been in Chengdu for half a day, made his move.
The Shu Han Imperial Court officially announced to the public that Shanhai City was listed as an enemy. All of Shanhai City's operations in Chengdu had to be evacuated within three days.
Otherwise, it would be forcibly sealed up.
If it weren't for the system's rules, Liu Bei would have probably sent his soldiers to raze Shanhai City's Chengdu office to the ground to vent his hatred.
As a result, Shanhai City became the first territory to be listed as an enemy by Royal City.
Speaking of which, it could be considered a legend.
When the news came out, the players were in an uproar!
Di Chen and the others were obviously gloating, but the allies of the Alliance of Mountains and Seas were a little depressed.
Even a fool could guess that apart from the Shanhai City office, the Chengdu branch of the Bank of the Four Seas would also be implicated. It was almost certain that they would withdraw from the Chengdu market.
As such, the Huitong Bank would be able to enjoy the Chengdu market alone.
This was like a pie falling from the sky!
Ouyang Shuo would probably have to think of a way to appease his guild allies in Chengdu.
Although this incident wouldn't hurt the Bank of the Four Seas, it was certain that they would suffer losses. No matter what, they had lost one-ninth of the market.
Fortunately, there were a total of nine Royal Cities in the China region. Otherwise, Ouyang Shuo would really cry!
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The other players were just watching the show.
What the players really cared about was the meaning behind this incident. Liu Bei directly attacking Shanhai City meant that the Royal City's influence on the players was getting stronger.
The Royal City was no longer a blurry symbol. Instead, it was a living dynasty. They had their own emotions, and they had their own standpoints and factions.
If they had different standpoints, they would fight against the players.
As for the feudal lords, especially the feudal lords that had a Royal City within their territory, they had to be even more vigilant. There were many such feudal lords.
Di Chen, War Wolf, Lord Chunshen, Wandering Huan, Military Kill Ripper, and the others all had this problem. If Shanhai City took over Yunnan Province, they would also have to face the Royal City of Dali.
From this point of view, Di Chen and the others didn't feel too comfortable.
In short, the main theme of the wilderness in the future would be that there would be fewer and fewer feudal lords, and the oligarchs would become stronger.
The enemies of the feudal lords would no longer be limited to the players' territories. They would also have to fight with the natives, or even the Royal City. The situation would become more and more complicated.
Apart from the Royal City, the Mongols, Jurchens, Western Regions, Western Xia, and Tubo around the China region were all unstable factors. To a large extent, they would decide the situation of the China region.
In the future, the wilderness would be the scene of chaotic battles between feudal lords.
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Shanhai City, Protectorate of the Southern Border.
Since Liu Bei had made such a threat, Shanhai City naturally had to take emergency measures.
The withdrawal of the Bank of the Four Seas could be said to be complicated. The most important thing was to return all the savings of the Chengdu players within three days.
For this reason, Meng Zhida transferred a total of 15 million gold coins from the main warehouse to deal with this "run on the bank."
Although the Chengdu players maintained trust in the Bank of the Four Seas, without a physical bank, they would have to go to other Royal City to handle business, which was quite inconvenient.
Therefore, most players would still choose to withdraw their funds and deposit them in the Bank of the Four Seas.
Only the guilds that maintained cooperation with the [Shanhai Alliance] might choose to cooperate with the Bank of the Four Seas because they had a large amount of funds and didn't need to operate frequently.
But this was also uncertain.
No one knew if Liu Bei would put pressure on these guilds. After all, if a guild wanted to establish itself in the Royal City, offending the Imperial Court was a big taboo.
Just this alone almost caused the Bank of the Four Seas to have a cash flow problem. For this reason, Meng Zhida had to urgently notify the various branches to appropriately tighten the loan.
The repercussions caused by this would probably take a few months to slowly recover.
In addition to returning the reserves, the Chengdu branch of the Bank of the Four Seas also had the problem of demanding repayment of loans. With the expansion of the loan business, the Chengdu branch of the Bank of the Four Seas had loans from the Bank of the Four Seas.
Compared to refunding the reserves, demanding repayment was even more troublesome.
If one wanted to know, the loans were all from groups that had a cash flow problem.
It was unrealistic to suddenly ask for all the loans, and it would also damage the reputation of the Bank of the Four Seas. The only way was to urge as much as possible.
The rest could only be slowly urged in the future.
Just this task alone would hold up a large amount of manpower and material resources of the Bank of the Four Seas. If there were people who reneged on their debts and wanted to rely on Liu Bei's protection, then it would be even more troublesome.
In short, when Meng Zhida heard the news, his head was about to explode.
What Ouyang Shuo needed to do was to personally write letters to the cooperating guilds in Chengdu. One was to apologize, and the other was to strengthen the cooperation between the two, and try to minimize the impact of this incident.
What Ouyang Shuo was more worried about was the evacuation of the office.
The Royal City office had never been a simple office, but the intelligence station of the Black Snake Guards. In the future, the Shanhai Guards, the Chamberlain of Dependencies, and other organizations would extend their tentacles into the Royal City through the office.
If they were to remove the office, there would be a lot of things to do!
The Black Snake Guards Commander Black Snake, the Shanhai Guards Commander Shen Buhai, and the Chamberlain of Dependencies Zhang Yi had already taken action urgently. One was to evacuate a portion of the exposed intelligence personnel.
Most importantly, before Liu Bei gained a stable footing, they would move the intelligence personnel underground, disguise themselves more carefully, and enter a state of deep concealment.
According to Ouyang Shuo, the more hostile the situation was, the more they could not give up on the intelligence gathering work in Chengdu. It could even be said that Chengdu was the best in the Nine Great Royal Cities in terms of intelligence work.
Ouyang Shuo would never fight a battle he was not confident of winning.
To be able to infiltrate deep and continuously transmit intelligence was a huge test for the Black Snake Guards and other organizations.
Black Snake had already secretly rushed to Chengdu to personally command.
As for Shen Buhai and Zhang Yi, they were too obvious targets and did not dare to head to Chengdu at this time. They could only stay in Shanhai City and command remotely.
Liu Bei's big move had caused all the departments in Shanhai City to be in a mess.
The only fortunate thing was that Shanhai City did not have close trade relations with Chengdu. On the contrary, many business associations in Chengdu relied on Shanhai City to carry out maritime trade.
Thus, the hostility in Chengdu would not have any impact on Shanhai City's trade in the short term.
In the long term, it was impossible to estimate. Once Chengdu's business associations could not go through Shanhai City, they would eventually choose to cooperate with Xiong Ba and the other coastal territories.
The prerequisite was that Xiong Ba and the others also had to open up maritime trade.
This was equivalent to pushing a portion of their resources to the hostile territory.
At the same time, the hostility in Chengdu had also caused Shanhai City's recruitment of talents and craftsmen to go up in smoke, cutting off one of Shanhai City's recruitment channels.
All in all, the hostility of a royal city was not easy to digest for the player territories. The losses and negative effects were comprehensive and far-reaching.
If not for the fact that Shanhai City was a large organization, it would not be able to withstand such an impact.
By the time these matters were settled, it was already five in the afternoon. In order to settle this matter, the entire protectorate was in a mess.
After some time, Ouyang Shuo immediately sent someone to find Zhao Kuo.
Passively enduring was not Ouyang Shuo's style. Since Liu Bei had already declared war, Ouyang Shuo naturally had to draw his sword and counterattack.
Otherwise, they would think that Shanhai City was easy to bully!
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